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Congress amended the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (
CPSIA) to include library books as those items we do not have to test for lead. Any book made before the law was passed will be exempt from testing. This makes a lot of libraries happy as they
can now continue slowly poisoning their patrons with lead-painted books without being hassled by The Man don't have to test their entire collections.
"I think this is a long time coming," said Jessica McGilvray, assistant director for the American Library Association's Office of Government Relations. "I'm thrilled to see they finally did this," she said. [LibraryJournal]
That was a PROBLEM?! I have been around library books all my life, and just now I learn that they may or may not have lead paint in them. I eat those books! I feed those books to children! Snack time will be ruined forever, all thanks to some goody-goodies that can't stand a little lead in their diet. This is going to kill our metal-agriculture market, as laid out by the 2008 documentry Tropic Thunder:
